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Government should stay away from the telecommunications industry

“We cannot leave our fate and the fate of the country in the hands of telecommunications operators that are commercially driven.”

#SaveFreeTV campaign supports free-to-air broadcasters opposing the analogue TV switch-off!

The #SaveFreeTV campaign looks forward eagerly to the coming Constitutional Court case set for 20 May 2022 where eTV, MMA and SOS are attempting to delay the switch-off of analogue TV broadcasting. The campaign fully supports the objectives of the litigants because if the switch-off happens on the designated date of 30 June 2022, millions of South Africans will be left without access to the information resource of public benefit broadcasting. eTV is arguing that the analogue switch-off (ASO) must be delayed until a sufficient number of so-called ‘indigent’ TV households have had their government-supplied DTT decoder installed. This refers to the 1.5 million set-top boxes (STBs) that the government had manufactured.

Spectrum settlement strikes the right balance, says regulator

The telecoms regulator said this week that the out-of-court settlement it reached with Telkom over spectrum shows there should always be attempts to strike a balance between commercial and public interests.

In 'humble plea', Icasa asks Telkom to reconsider spectrum challenge

The Independent Communications Authority pleaded with Telkom to consider abandoning its court challenge against the state's spectrum auction.

Data prices likely to remain high | George Herald